Insys Therapeutics posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday due to soft demand for its flagship product Subsys, an Opioid cancer pain medication at the center of a federal probe of the company.
Last week, John Kapoor, Insys’ billionaire Founder and majority shareholder, was arrested on charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys. Kapoor resigned from the company’s board on Sunday.
Shares of Insys were up 0.6 percent at $5.12. They have fallen 44 percent since the beginning of the year.
Kapoor’s lawyer has said his client is innocent.
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